WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2122, 13 February 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE.

Let nobody cast a stone at the critics who do not agree. Only a few days ago I met with a good insUnce of the saying, When doctors disagree, &c. I At a large dinner party there were two medical authorities of the highest rank. The ! question was the cholera. One of the two physicians had studied what is called the Asiatic cholera in India, had acquired great experience, and in a most eloquent and what seemed to me most convincing I manner, proved the microbe theory, the fearfully infectious character of the disease, and, quoting a number of cases from his personal experience, seemed to bo so convinced that he convinced all the rest of- us. Barely had he finished, when the other physician, just returned from Egypt, where he had studied the epidemic sur place, denied all his predecessor had said, maintained that the disease travelled along the rivers, and nerer changed its course, and gave instances taut ct phis, which absolute!) proved his case. In despair at not being able to make up my mind between two such authorities, I asked Dr. Z., who happened to sit near me, what was his opinion, and which of the two great men was to be believed. " Upon my word," he said, "I believe they are both right." Tableau !— L. E. in Temple Bar. The Habit of Savixo. — Children who have a little money ought to practice saving something. Many boys and girls of to-day hardly know a higher use for any money that comes into their hands than spending it for some foolinh thing as quickly as possible. To such, a lesson in self-denial aud economy is very important. As go the boy's pennies and dimes, so, very likely, will go the man's dollars and hundreds by-nnd-bye. Without having tho ppirit of a miner, the person accustomed to save has more pleasure in laying up than a spendthrift ever knows. The way to keep money is to earn it fairly and honestly. Money so obtained is pretty certain to abide with its possessor. But money that in inherited, or that in any way comes without a fair and just equivalent is almost certain to go as it I comes. The young- man who begins by saving a few shillings a month, and thriftily increases his store— every coin being a representative of good, solid work, honestly and manfully done— stands a better chance to spend the last half of his life in affluence and comfort, than he who, in ' his haste to , become rich, obtains money by dashing speculations, or the devious means which abound in the foggy region lying between fair dealing and actual fraud. Among the wisest and most thrifty men of wealth, the current proverb is, money goes as it comes. Let the young make a note of this and see that their money comes fairly, that it may long abide with them.